Thrivent is a financial services company offering investment, banking, and insurance products to its Christian membership base. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Generosity portfolio team, I build and maintain the backend systems that power Thrivent's charitable giving products — enabling members and their organizations to manage and direct charitable contributions. I work closely with our product owner as part of a small, focused agile team of eight engineers.

• Modernized legacy Java/Spring backend services supporting membership lifecycle, benefits, and eligibility — including migrating batch jobs off deprecated internal systems, upgrading Java versions, and building member-facing APIs
• Built a reusable AWS Lambda library for client profile retrieval from an internal membership data service, establishing a shared pattern adopted by all current and future Lambda functions across the team
• Developed AWS Lambda functions to publish real-time membership change events to Kafka for downstream consumers and an AWS Glue job for nightly eligibility reset processing using Python
• Contributed to a cloud-native membership re-platform on AWS (Lambda, DynamoDB, Kafka) to replace a legacy mainframe system as the source of truth for membership data, supporting a ~90% reduction in mainframe footprint

MNTN is a Connected TV advertising platform that makes it possible for brands to run performance-driven video ads on streaming services with the same measurability as search and social advertising. As a Backend Software Engineer on the ad spend optimization team, I worked on the core service responsible for ensuring client ad budgets were spent efficiently — analyzing campaign performance data to prioritize high-performing ads while maintaining a spend pace that would fully utilize each client's monthly budget.

• Developed a Kotlin/Spring Boot service to automate campaign budget optimization, processing ad performance and spend data across campaign groups maximizing efficiency while maintaining client budget pacing
• Designed and exposed REST APIs supporting both bulk and per-campaign-group optimization runs with a hierarchical configuration system allowing spend behavior overrides at the global, campaign group and individual campaign levels; persisted campaign data in PostgreSQL
• Integrated this service with downstream ad platforms via Amazon SQS on AWS to apply optimization outputs in real time

Grubhub is one of the largest food delivery platforms in the US, connecting ~25 million customers with local restaurants. As a Software Engineer II on the customer care engineering team, I built and maintained the backend services powering the tools and automations used by Grubhub's customer support organization — including APIs connecting their Zendesk frontend to internal systems and automated workflows designed to reduce the need for manual agent intervention.

• Architected and led development of a customer credit system across 6 services that replaced coupon code issuance for customer service resolutions enabling credits to be automatically applied to a customer's next order across Grubhub's ~25 million active user base
• Presented technical architecture to senior engineers in a formal design review incorporating feedback to refine the design prior to implementation
• Coordinated with two external teams to implement dependent service changes required to support the credit system launch, which received VP-level visibility and was recognized at a quarterly town hall
• Mentored junior engineers including delegating implementation work, creating tickets, and reviewing code as part of the customer credit system delivery
• Developed backend web services supporting customer care operations including order issue resolution, refund processing, and customer communication using Java, Spring Boot, ElasticSearch, Cassandra, Kafka and AWS

Attentive is a mobile marketing platform used by thousands of brands to engage their customers through personalized SMS and email campaigns. As a Software Engineer II on the Integrations Core team, I built and maintained the backend services that connected Attentive's platform with third-party tools and data sources that customers rely on — enabling seamless data exchange between Attentive and external systems across Attentive's library of 100+ integrations.

• Developed an event-driven data integration pipeline using Java, Spring Boot, Python and AWS (S3, Kinesis, SQS) that ingested Google Product data uploaded by customers to measure advertising campaign impact on overall and product-level sales
• Developed backend web services supporting third-party vendor integrations on Attentive's integrations core platform using Java, Spring Boot, JUnit, MySQL, Kafka and AWS
• Supported recruiting by conducting coding interviews and providing structured candidate feedback

Target is one of the largest retail chains in the United States. As a Software Engineer on a large cross-functional engineering team of 10-12 engineers, I helped build Target Circle from the ground up. Target Circle was a brand new national loyalty program designed to reward customers for their continued shopping and drive long-term engagement across Target's customer base.

• Developed REST microservices supporting a new national loyalty program using Java, Spring Boot, Kafka and Cassandra
• Contributed to the national rollout of Target Circle to over 120 million customers, joining the team during single-market testing and supporting the full launch and post-launch feature additions
• Maintained unit and integration test coverage of at least 80% using JUnit, Spock and CukeTest